-7th-
Beautiful weather.
Recd. big mail from the outside.
Letters from Judge Day, Judge Rich,
Col. Blethen, of the Seattle "Times", Brainerd
of the P-I. and Perkins of the Ledger,
Geo. Baldwin & others, all speaking
in the most friendly terms about
my labors as judge - terminated
by my resignation.
Judge Day said:
"Dear Judge Wickersham:
I received a day or two ago your letter
dated Nov. 12, with a clipping from the
Fairbanks "Daily News" reviewing your
work as a judge in Alaska. It's a man's
work you have been doing there - admin
=istering justice on the frontier, - and
Alaska, not you, will be the loser by
your laying it down to take up {again} the
practice of your profession.
The men who shall follow you as
judges in Alaska will find their path
=way easier and safer for the trails which